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What we are riding and why.

Santos Travelmaster 2.6 Alu : After an exhaustive research and trial and error process we decided that this was the bike that we would be spending the next year living on. The first thing that drew me to this bike was the geometry. It is shaped much more like a mountain bike than most touring bikes on the market. This was appealing due to the mixed surfaces that we expect to be encountering between Morocco and Singapore.

The Travelmaster is offered in steel and aluminum and with 26in or 700cm wheels. We decided on the aluminum with 26in wheels. Aluminum was chosen for its stiffness. With all the mountains that I will be crawling up, I don’t want to lose any of my effort to frame flexing. 26in wheels were chosen for their strength and availability worldwide.

This is the build. Parts were mostly chosen for their ruggedness and ability to be serviced almost anywhere.